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Encyclopedia of World Scientists, Updated Edition

SCIENCE ENCYCLOPEDIA: ENCY OF WLD SCIENTISTS UPDATED ED

World Biography

Biography & Genealogy

Scientists

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<P>This title is a comprehensive reference tool for learning about scientists and their work. It includes 500 cross-referenced profiles of well-known scientific <Q>greats</Q> of history and contemporary scientists whose work is verging on prominence. More than 100 entries are devoted to women and minority scientists. Each entry includes the subject's full name, dates of birth/death, nationality, and field(s) of specialization. A biographical essay focuses primarily on the subject's scientific work and achievements; it also highlights additional information, such as place of birth, parents' names and occupations, name(s) of spouse(s) and children, educational background, jobs held, and awards earned. Profiles include: Archimedes (c. 287–212 BCE): Mathematician; Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543): Astronomer; Galileo Galilei (1564–1642): Astronomer; Daniel Bernoulli (1700–1782): Mathematician; John James Audubon (1785–1851): Biologist; Elizabeth Blackwell (1821–1910): Medical scientist; Alfred Bernhard Nobel (1833–1896): Chemist; Albert Einstein (1879–1955): Physicist; Niels Bohr (1885–1962): Physicist; George Washington Carver (c. 1861–1943): Chemist; Marie Curie (1867–1934): Physicist and chemist; Robert Hutchings Goddard (1882–1945): Aerospace engineer; Edwin Powell Hubble (1889–1953): Astronomer; Grace Murray Hooper (1906–1992): Computer scientist; Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1910–1994): Chemist; Jacques-Yves Cousteau (1910–1997): Earth scientist; Alan Turing (1912–1954): Computer scientist; Jonas Edward Salk (1914–1995): Medical scientist; Rosalind Franklin (1920–1958): Chemist; Jewel Plummer Cobb (1924–2017): Biologist; and Stephen Hawking (1942–2018): Astronomer.</P>

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Front Cover.
Copyright Page.
1: Entries.
2: Abbe, Cleveland.
3: Ackerman, Thomas P..
4: Adamson, Joy.
5: Agassiz, Elizabeth Cabot Cary.
6: Agassiz, Louis.
7: Agnesi, Maria Ga&#x00EB;tana.
8: Agnodice.
9: Agricola, Georgius.
10: Aiken, Howard.
11: Ajakaiye, Deborah Enilo.
12: Alder, Kurt.
13: Alexander, Hattie Elizabeth.
14: Alfv&#x00E9;n, Hannes Olof G&#x00F6;sta.
15: Allen, Paul.
16: Altman, Sidney.
17: Alvarez, Luis Walter.
18: Alvari&#x00F1;o, Angeles.
19: Amp&#x00E8;re, Andr&#x00E9;-Marie.
20: Anastasi, Anne.
21: Ancker-Johnson, Betsy.
22: Andersen, Dorothy Hansine.
23: Anderson, Carl David.
24: Anderson, Elda Emma.
25: Anderson, Elizabeth Garrett.
26: Anderson, Gloria Long.
27: Anfinsen, Christian Boehmer.
28: Anning, Mary.
29: Apgar, Virginia.
30: Arber, Agnes Robertson.
31: Archimedes of Syracuse.
32: Aristarchus of Samos.
33: Aristotle.
34: Arnold, Frances H..
35: Arrhenius, Svante August.
36: Aston, Francis William.
37: Audubon, John James.
38: Auerbach, Charlotte.
39: Avery, Mary Ellen.
40: Avery, Oswald.
41: Avicenna.
42: Avogadro, Amedeo.
43: Ayrton, Hertha.
44: Babbage, Charles.
45: Baekeland, Leo Hendrik.
46: Baeyer, Adolf von.
47: Bailey, Florence Merriam.
48: Baker, Sara Josephine.
49: Baltimore, David.
50: Banks, Harvey Washington.
51: Banting, Sir Frederick Grant.
52: B&#x00E1;r&#x00E1;ny, Robert.
53: Bari, Nina Karlovna.
54: Barney, Ida.
55: Barton, Clara.
56: Barton, Derek H. R..
57: Bascom, Florence.
58: Bassi, Laura.
59: Bateson, William.
60: Bechtereva, Natalia Petrovna.
61: Becquerel, Antoine-Henri.
62: Bell Burnell, Susan Jocelyn.
63: Bellow, Alexandra.
64: Benedict, Ruth Fulton.
65: Benerito, Ruth Mary Rogan.
66: Bennett, Isobel Ida.
67: Berg, Paul.
68: Bergius, Friedrich.
69: Berkowitz, Joan B..
70: Bernard, Claude.
71: Berners-Lee, Tim.
72: Bernoulli, Daniel.
73: Bernstein, Dorothy Lewis.
74: Bertozzi, Andrea.
75: Berzelius, J&#x00F6;ns Jakob.
76: Best, Charles Herbert.
77: Bethe, Hans Albrecht.
78: Bilger, Leonora Neuffer.
79: Binet, Alfred.
80: Binnig, Gerd.
81: Birman, Joan S..
82: Bishop, Katharine Scott.
83: Blackburn, Elizabeth Helen.
84: Blackwell, Elizabeth.
85: Blagg, Mary Adela.
86: Bloch, Felix.
87: Blodgett, Katharine Burr.
88: Blum, Lenore Epstein.
89: Boden, Margaret.
90: Bodley, Rachel Littler.
91: Bohr, Niels.
92: Boivin, Marie-Anne-Victoire Gallain.
93: Bok, Bartholomeus Jan.
94: Boltzmann, Ludwig Eduard.
95: Bondar, Roberta Lynn.
96: Boole, George.
97: Boole, Mary Everest.
98: Bordet, Jules-Jean-Baptiste-Vincent.
99: Borlaug, Norman Ernest.
100: Born, Max.
101: Bosch, Carl.
102: Bose, Satyendranath.
103: Bothe, Walther.
104: Bovet, Daniel.
105: Bowman, Sir William.
106: Boyle, Robert.
107: Bozeman, Sylvia.
108: Brady, St. Elmo.
109: Brahe, Tycho.
110: Brandegee, Mary Katharine Layne.
111: Branson, Herman Russell.
112: Braun, Emma Lucy.
113: Braun, Karl Ferdinand.
114: Breckenridge, Mary.
115: Brewster, Sir David.
116: Brill, Yvonne Claeys.
117: Britton, Elizabeth Gertrude Knight.
118: Broca, Pierre-Paul.
119: Broglie, Louis de.
120: Brongniart, Alexandre.
121: Br&#x00F8;nsted, Johannes Nicolaus.
122: Brooks, Harriet.
123: Brown, Rachel Fuller.
124: Browne, Barbara Moulton.
125: Browne, Marjorie Lee.
126: Buchner, Eduard.
127: Bunsen, Robert Wilhelm.
128: Burbank, Luther.
129: Burbidge, Eleanor Margaret Peachey.
130: Burnet, Sir Frank Macfarlane.
131: Burton, Leone.
132: Butenandt, Adolf.
133: Buys Ballot, Christoph.
134: Caldicott, Helen.
135: Caldwell, Mary Letitia.
136: Calvin, Melvin.
137: Cambra, Jessie G..
138: Campbell-Swinton, Alan Archibald.
139: Canady, Alexa I..
140: Cannizzaro, Stanislao.
141: Cannon, Annie Jump.
142: Cantor, Georg.
143: Card&#x00FA;s, David.
144: Carnot, Nicolas-L&#x00E9;onard-Sadi.
145: Carothers, E. Eleanor.
146: Carothers, Wallace Hume.
147: Carr, Emma Perry.
148: Carrel, Alexis.
149: Carruthers, George R..
150: Carson, Benjamin S..
151: Carver, George Washington.
152: Caserio, Marjorie Constance Beckett.
153: Cassini, Giovanni Domenico.
154: Cauchy, Augustin-Louis, Baron.
155: Cavendish, Henry.
156: Celsius, Anders.
157: Chadwick, Sir James.
158: Chain, Sir Ernst Boris.
159: Chandrasekhar, Subrahmanyan.
160: Chang, Min-Chueh.
161: Chang, Sun-Yung Alice.
162: Charpak, Georges.
163: Charpentier, Emmanuelle.
164: Chase, Mary Agnes Meara.
165: Chasman, Renate Wiener.
166: Ch&#x00E2;telet, Gabrielle-Emilie du.
167: Cherenkov, Pavel Alekseyevich.
168: Chinn, May Edward.
169: Cho, Alfred Y..
170: Chu, Paul Ching-Wu.
171: Church, George.
172: Clapp, Cornelia M..
173: Clark, Eugenie.
174: Clark, Josiah Latimer.
175: Clarke, Edith.
176: Clay-Jolles, Tettje Clasina.
177: Claypool, Edith Jane.
178: Cleopatra the Alchemist.
179: Cobb, Jewel Plummer.
180: Cohen, Stanley H..
181: Cohn, Mildred.
182: Colborn, Theodora.
183: Colden, Jane.
184: Cole, Rebecca J..
185: Colmenares, Margarita Hortensia.
186: Colwell, Rita Rossi.
187: Colwin, Laura North Hunter.
188: Comstock, Anna Botsford.
189: Conway, Lynn Ann.
190: Conwell, Esther Marly.
191: Conybeare, William Daniel.
192: Cooper, Leon N.
193: Copernicus, Nicolaus.
194: Cori, Gerty Theresa Radnitz.
195: Coriolis, Gaspard-Gustave de.
196: Cornforth, Sir John Warcup.
197: Cousteau, Jacques-Yves.
198: Cowings, Patricia Suzanne.

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